Random Thought of the Day

[Sancho]

The Bailey's is deductible right?

Hell yeah!

Well, 50% of the bottle is anyway. It falls under employee travel expenses, but is subject to the 50% rule for M&IE (meals and incidental expenses).

I figure I'm traveling from my computer to the liquor cabinet.

Hey, you're not a Fed, are you?

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Wild Turkey 101 and Barq's root beer is a bad mix.

[papayahed]

Hell yeah!

Well, 50% of the bottle is anyway. It falls under employee travel expenses, but is subject to the 50% rule for M&IE (meals and incidental expenses).

I figure I'm traveling from my computer to the liquor cabinet.

Hey, you're not a Fed, are you?


Come on, It's me! Your old pal, Papayahed! Sooooooo, tell me about these deductions??

[Ser Nevarc]

busted.

[Sancho]

Psst! Papaya, I know a guy, see. ^Might wanna keep your eye on Nevarc, though. Not sure what side he's on.

[Calidore]

Wild Turkey 101 and Barq's root beer is a bad mix.

Anything and Barq's is a bad mix. I don't know how they can call that stuff root beer.

[papayahed]

I think I'm going to chart the times I spend on litnet against the times I should be cleaning and see if there's a correlation.

[papayahed]

Like now.

[Buh4Bee]

That summer is not ever long enough and screw the saying that all good things must come to an end!

[qimissung]

The summer never is long enough is it? Why can't I be filthy rich? Why, why, why?

[kushy]

Injected so much pain.And feeling rest less also.

[papayahed]

Why can't we all just get along?

[papayahed]

Will it ever get to 4:30 ?????

[hoope]

He is asleep. Though his mettle was sorely tried,
He lived, and when he lost his angel, died.
It happened calmly, on its own,
The way the night comes when day is done.


From Les Miserables

[Scheherazade]

Why can't we all just get along?What is the fun in that???

[papayahed]

that's true

[Hawkman]

The summer never is long enough is it? Why can't I be filthy rich? Why, why, why?

Because you chose a career in education


Anything and Barq's is a bad mix. I don't know how they can call that stuff root beer.

What is "root beer"? - I've never really been hip to this beverage, it's just some arcane reference in American texts to me. I guess it could be jolly old ginger beer, but root beer could be anything, like parsnips or spuds or mandrake maybe... And yeah, like I'd never heard of a Twinky until Ghost Busters. I asked my Sister in Law what it was, (she's from Indiana) and she said it was a disgusting chemical concoction designed for the corruption of American youth. Well that sorted out my Twinky problem, but what is "root beer"....?

[Calidore]

Your sister-in-law is technically correct, but as is often the case, Twinkies are as good as they are not good for you.

Root beer is my personal favorite soda, especially the genuine naturally-flavored stuff (as opposed to artificially-flavored mass-market) when I can get some. From Wikipedia:

There are hundreds of root beer brands in the United States, produced in every U.S. state.[1] It is a flavor almost exclusive to North America, yet there are a few brands from other nations around the world, such as the UK, the Philippines, and Thailand where the flavor often varies considerably from the typical North American drink.[2] There is no standardized recipe. The primary ingredient, artificial sassafras flavoring, is complemented with other flavors. Common flavorings are vanilla, wintergreen, cherry tree bark, licorice root, sarsaparilla root, nutmeg, acacia, anise, molasses, cinnamon, clove, and honey.

A similar soft drink, sarsaparilla, was popular in cowboy days, and can still be found in some stores as an alt-soda.

Barq's has 2 major differences from root beer: No head, which root beer has, and caffeine, which no root beer has. It's basically a sort-of-root-beer-flavored cola, and not even very good.

[Hawkman]

Many thanks for broadening my horizons Calidor. However now I know what root beer is, can you describe to me what sassafras flavoured beer tastes like? :D I know what all the other flavourings taste like, but if they need to make it taste of all that other stuff, it must be pretty bad! :D

[papayahed]

Dang, people stop assuming.

[Helga]

people are so unsettling. Why can't I just stay in my triangle?

[hoope]

I miss it all :)

[Heathcliff]

I don't like to use the phrase "The fact that...." to start a sentence. It's a bad habit that just flows into my speech but it bothers me because I feel like I need evidence to back up what I'm saying. Wah.

[Scheherazade]

I don't like to use the phrase "The fact that...." to start a sentence. It's a bad habit that just flows into my speech but it bothers me because I feel like I need evidence to back up what I'm saying. Wah.Heathcliff returns! :D

Hope you and your family has been well!

[Maximilianus]

I don't like to use the phrase "The fact that...." to start a sentence. It's a bad habit that just flows into my speech but it bothers me because I feel like I need evidence to back up what I'm saying. Wah.
I don't like it very much either, for similar reasons. Then again, I prefer using the fact that to using in point of fact. I even find it hard to believe that I wrote it for the first time in my life, but it's just to stand my ground on why I dislike it. It sounds so overly conceited to my ear, as though someone were trying to present themselves as a steadfast scholar all day long. Yech! http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/bad.gif

[Helga]

I don't curse, but right now I kinda want too. A teacher wants to be my tutor regarding my BA thesis and I have to write a research question and a skeleton for a meeting. I am not sure I'm ready...I don't like meeting new people AND I have no idea howto work on my question. FFFFFF

[Hawkman]

:troll: Beware of the troll :troll:

[cacian]

everyday is tuesday. I just needed to say that :D

[Helga]

my son is with his dad all weekend, I hope it's not bad to say I have been waiting for a night of white wine and reading.

[papayahed]

I dislike work especially at 1:30 in the morning.

[faithosaurus]

I hate snow, but at least classes are cancelled :D

[Calidore]

Can monks operating under a vow of silence still text each other?

[papayahed]

What do I do with my CDs?

[Calidore]

Bardarbunga is such a great name for a volcano. There's still no excuse for Eyjafjallajokull, though.

[Scheherazade]

Daddy long legs, daddy long legs, daddy long legs...

[tonywalt]

They will be valuable like vinyl one day - you will see!

[floralven]

To my dead sister.

Everyday I look for you,
you're nowhere to be found.
Everyone can see you though,
they know that you're around.
But here I am all by myself,
lonely in a crowd.
Waiting, wishing, hoping, longing
for a sign that you're around.

[tailor STATELY]

To my dead sister.

Everyday I look for you,
you're nowhere to be found.
Everyone can see you though,
they know that you're around.
But here I am all by myself,
lonely in a crowd.
Waiting, wishing, hoping, longing
for a sign that you're around.

Welcome to LitNet dear poet.

My random thought on your poem: your poem has a surrealistic quality that is quite touching. I think of my sister who passed on way before her time quite often: holidays, birthdays, when I see a photo, her "passing day", fb postings by family, etc. Have had way too many passings recently in my life - it's hard not to dwell upon them.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[Sancho]

The moon sure is big tonight

[tailor STATELY]

An odd eclipse tonight: Portrait of Jennie, The Lake House, and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir... likened unto a Venn diagram or cardioid function.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[Sancho]

Buy-buy-BUY! Wait, no, sell-sell-SELL! Uhh, hum, I don't know, hold-hold-HOLD!

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

The wall street roller coaster, well, at least we have the weekend to lick our wounds.

[papayahed]

The wall street roller coaster, well, at least we have the weekend to lick our wounds.

right??????


sheesh man.

[Sancho]

Yep, yep, yep
I'm into cardboard
Uh-huh
I bought at 2 cents a ton
Sold at 4 cents a ton
Yep, yep, yep
I bought two tons of the stuff...
Ah, well - you do the math

[Hawkman]

Before Catwoman, there was Kittengirl...

[papayahed]

I am loving Boss's Day.

[Scheherazade]

"The beet is the most intense of vegetables." is one of the most promising opening lines I have read in a long while.

[Calidore]

Yesterday: Rain, snow, ice pellet dumps and 50 mph wind gusts all day...and hardly any trick-or-treaters. They don't make kids like they used to, I tell you.

[Marbles]

Random thought:

Of my heart, I know; of the beloved, knows God.

[Helga]

sad day on the ice if the senate decides to raise taxes on books, they are voting now and want to raise it a lot, I hope there are enough wise people there to stop it. edit: they voted yes so higher taxes on books are coming

[papayahed]

sad day on the ice if the senate decides to raise taxes on books, they are voting now and want to raise it a lot, I hope there are enough wise people there to stop it. edit: they voted yes so higher taxes on books are coming


what????? Holy crap, I never heard of a book tax.

[Helga]

what????? Holy crap, I never heard of a book tax.

there is tax on books in most countries people just don't know it. A few countries don't have it, I think I remember correctly that France is one of them, but I do know that Denmark has a higher tax than on the ice, even now after they raised it here.

[papayahed]

there is tax on books in most countries people just don't know it. A few countries don't have it, I think I remember correctly that France is one of them, but I do know that Denmark has a higher tax than on the ice, even now after they raised it here.

Aren't you guys the most well read country? I remember seeing some statistic a while back about book buying.

[Sancho]

Book tax! Holy Schmoly!

Do those gumbahs up in DC read history? They should ask George III how The Stamp Act of 1765 worked out for the British Empire.

[Helga]

yeah I guess, in part, well there are more books published here than anywhere else I think and I heard somewhere that 1 in 3 of the population will write a book of some sort.

But statistics also show that young boys don't read a lot and many find it even difficult but at the same time our cultural minister was visiting schools telling kids the importance of reading he put this bill before congress and won. politics.

[NikolaiI]

http://joelreyesnoche.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/bbbl.png

Been thinking about this lately . . . for almost a week.

We need to turn the war machine OFF. . it's a machine, like a refrigerator. . it has a lot of parts, it's larger, but it's still a machine, and it can be turned off. Nothing is impossible - all it takes is for us, collectively, to wake up from it.

[Sancho]

I think my pants must've shrunk up some over the holidays.

[NikolaiI]

So Yesterday, or earlier today, at one point the word "noncompoop" went through my head. . I thought this was interesting because it's usually "nincompoop" and I didn't think much of it. . just now on M*A*S*H, Major Winchester just used the same word, "noncompoop."

[Calidore]

So Yesterday, or earlier today, at one point the word "noncompoop" went through my head. . I thought this was interesting because it's usually "nincompoop" and I didn't think much of it. . just now on M*A*S*H, Major Winchester just used the same word, "noncompoop."

Well, a "noncom" is short for non-commissioned officer. In M*A*S*H, that could make sense in context.

[NikolaiI]

Glad to know that - thanks for the info! :-)

[HSPS]

"The beet is the most intense of vegetables." is one of the most promising opening lines I have read in a long while.

Pickle the beet.

[NikolaiI]

Giving me a new idea is like handing a cretin a loaded gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang, bang.
-Philip K. Dick

[papayahed]

there is no candy in the house.

[papayahed]

I know I said I wasn't going to do anything the rest of the evening but I really do want to wash some clothes.

[Wizard272002]

Contrast is a good game!

[NikolaiI]

Hey
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/80/ed/10/80ed10b26e7f552b5721ee9360c80174.jpg

[NikolaiI]

What would it be like if you could remember every post you ever made, or saw?

You can! How many trillions of neurons are there in the brain, again?

[Pendragon]

Et obscurité, et la décadence, et la Mort Rouge régnaient sur tout

[cacian]

believe in chocolate and it will believe in coffee who said life was toffee when sugar is sweet and lovy?

[Calidore]

Welcome back!

[cacian]

Welcome back!

Calidore so thank you it is nice to be back :)

[NikolaiI]

Hats off to the Audi commercial for playing "Agitata infido flatu" from Juditha Triumphans, by Antonio Vivaldi. One of my very favorite classical songs :)

I am curious now to hear other instrumental versions.. I'm sure there have got to be a few.

[cacian]

Hats off to the Audi commercial for playing "Agitata infido flatu" from Juditha Triumphans, by Antonio Vivaldi. One of my very favorite classical songs :)

I am curious now to hear other instrumental versions.. I'm sure there have got to be a few.

audi commercial did you Nikolail? do you have a link?
i was just thinking about classical music the other day :)

[Calidore]

Adding garlic and hot giardiniera makes pretty much everything better. Except maybe ice cream.

[NikolaiI]

audi commercial did you Nikolail? do you have a link?
i was just thinking about classical music the other day :)

I heard it again and I may have been wrong; it may have just been a similar part of the music..

I was also unable to find any instrumental versions of it. Maybe I'll find one some day. :P


Adding garlic and hot giardiniera makes pretty much everything better. Except maybe ice cream.

and maybe green tea :)

[Melanie]

Hats off to the Audi commercial for playing "Agitata infido flatu" from Juditha Triumphans, by Antonio Vivaldi. One of my very favorite classical songs :)

I am curious now to hear other instrumental versions.. I'm sure there have got to be a few.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpHyigdneww

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW0WOefg_3c

[NikolaiI]

Hmm, that's very interesting! I still feel I may have been mistaken - it was only a few bars, and it could have been another song that sounded similar. But you finding an older one with Vivaldi music makes me think it's slightly more likely. . It's so funny, and I have to laugh, because the thought just occurred to me I may have only heard it because I like the song.

In any case, you inspired me to look up an old thread I made about it. . I've always especially loved the second stanza. . It's one of those that seems just as, if not more beautiful, to me now.

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?28821-Vivaldi-Latin

By the way, and I suppose this works for a random thought, Google searches are a good way to find old threads.

The search, "new audi commercial with agitata?" for instance, leads to this page.

[Calidore]

George Thorogood is 65. Some people are just hard to imagine as senior citizens.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I stumbled upon Cindy Walker the pen behind many great songs others capitalized on.
Great stuff for a cloudy Saturday afternoon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kT_D4yEN4Y

[NewSecret]

Live, Laugh, Love.

[NikolaiI]

Infinite peace is there at the heart of every living entity, and all it takes to reach it is the wish, the desire, the absolute aspiration for attainment, and it is instantly found. There is nothing external, nothing consumption-related to reach it - only the wish for peace, and it's achieved. This infinite peace is within every cell of every from of the universe, every living being and every soul. Because it is there in everything, all are inherently sacred, holy and divine - all that's necessary to regain this sovereignty, this beauty, is the aspiration to reach such peace, and then life becomes beautiful again.

[Deveroux]

I want to be an alcoholic!
But I, that am not shaped for alchohol,
Nor made to drink from Falstaff'S glass;

I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want Alcohol's majesty
To strut before a wanton La Fee Absinthe

[Calidore]

Comcast is sapping my will to live.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

If Wentworth Miller is gay, why was he trying to break out of prison?

[Calidore]

Blackhawks win the Cup!

[Tyrion Cheddar]

I have to pee.

[Helga]

today it has been a 100 years since women on the ice could vote so there is a celebration and most workplaces are closed. So a nice day in fine weather and everyone is wearing pink.

[Clopin]

Really cold water makes me so sleepy.

[Eupalinos]

That's interesting, Clopin; a cold shower wakes me up better than coffee...

Maybe it is just your avatar, but I remembered some wretched doggerel of mine from the other night when my roommate and I entertained each other with verse suicide notes. It's the only one I remember, though he had some much better ones. I suppose this will serve as my random thought:

My mind was all a muddle
So now I lie a puddle
For your prater to fuddle.

But I hate to make you sad
All in all good times were had
Though I serve you this trouble.

Get up and clear your plate
Just think it isn't too late
And be glad it wasn't double.

[Philosopherpoet]

What we need to accept in life are the polarities and paradoxes we face, which are inescapably human.

[Calidore]

The street's being repaved, so all down the block are those construction sawhorses with the flashing yellow lights on top. I wonder what the fireflies make of those things.

[Scheherazade]

"...many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg."

[Kinsddlock]

fireflies, street wow so beautiful

[Pensive]

bewitched bothered and bewildered

[Diem My Bui]

umm... it seems I've forgot to do my homework for tonight class :)))

[Sancho]

This website is becoming the quiet little corner of the internet that it used to be.

[Kemijost]

A dear pet can feel like a soulmate, and when he goes, there is a hole in your heart that he used to fill. I am wrecked.

[tailor STATELY]

@ Kemijost: Moi aussi: My deepest and dearest condolences.

:tailor

[Kemijost]

@ Kemijost: Moi aussi: My deepest and dearest condolences.

:tailor

Thank you, Tailor. <3

After doing all the work of running a serious vegetable garden for organic food, the bounty is slim payout for all the hours involved. "Support your local organic farmer."

[Calidore]

A dear pet can feel like a soulmate, and when he goes, there is a hole in your heart that he used to fill.

Very true. Awfully sorry for your loss.

[fleamailman]

("...what you write writes you back..." blurted the goblin to himself mostly, then adding "...more readers read posts in one form or another today, whether that be on facebook twitter or this forumland here, than most anywhere, and yet most writers ignore this readership here for their bookworld still, thus I announce myself as a reader amongst you writers here, and no I'm not going to read any of your books elsewhere until your posts entice me to do so now, so write in your posts humans, for your readers surround you as we speak...", but in truth the goblin's mind was more on the coffee machine, where stepping down from his soapbox he simply looked around for any signs of civilization guessing that that would be his next call where the day seem promising at least, adding "...coffee anyone...")

[Calidore]

As aggressive outside, so proportionally fragile inside. A soap bubble behind an electric fence.

[fleamailman]

(the goblin just thanked everyone for their odd acceptance of him, saying "...I guess I repost stuff often enough, strangely it's only then, at that point, that I notice those typos or some ambiguity, subtle or otherwise, which had been there under my nose all along...", the goblin was just confessing, that he often didn't see, what he saw, for what he thought he was seeing instead, continuing "...now another way to look mad in the bistro it to read one's post aloud, albeit in a low voice, which not only helps one smooth out the wording somewhat but it also gains one a large berth between oneself and the others around one...", by "others" the goblin meant those bistro goers again, who were ever seated a few tables away, and who had rightly guessed by now that the goblin is either composing some texts, therefore mad then, or that he's just mad anyway, most probably because they considered themselves to be sane by that default there, or at least sane by some visual comparison perhaps...", something that the goblin was loathed to admit to himself then, and where he wouldn't comply with them anyway, no, just how he hated their silly conformities, so maybe for the goblin too, this berth between them and him was something of a blessing after all, declaring aloud "...me I don't do right in the right way, I do the write thing in my way...")

[papayahed]

I love my new shoes.

[Wizard272002]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC4h6c2zeZA

[fleamailman]

("...be yourself as everyone else is already taken..." remarked the goblin repeating wilde's line there, yet somehow the goblin knew too that it was ever this compromise here between the reader and the author, sighing "...in part one has to become selfish lest one becomes selfless, yet not too selfish lest it loses you your readers, simply it was the compromise of the wolves again, keeping them in sight but not to near...", and where in the end authur conan doyle became such a prisoner of sherlock holmes that his readers would read nothing else from him, then finally the goblin just smiled to the words "...they're there to keep you on your toes, but wolves are not the point really, its keeping the chase going that proves your pen to your muse doesn't it, so only the chase matters really, not the kill...")

[fleamailman]

("...ah, but I do wonder how one is ever going to get one's grammar right towards those readers who are moving targets in what they choose to read, and whose level of grammatical understanding is probably less than yours to begin with..." ventured the goblin not sure really, but then adding "...learn grammar yes, but don't lose sight of your readers in the process, where they'll forgive your errors for your individuality there but who will no doubt shy away from anyone who goes marching their writings along the page in some time honoured grammatical goosestep...", and then the goblin smiled, saying "...grammar is like the time in its way, one tells the time when asked, and knows the time for oneself too, but one doesn't keep telling people the time, nor follows that time by the second neither...", yet maybe the goblin wasn't being helpful here so he fell silent hoping that he hadn't offended anyone in his honesty, while the slot for its part was simply hungry and wondered if the goblin had finished the post yet, saying "...goblin, you had to learn to unlearn, leave be and let go lest those years will catch up with you once more, you're younger now...")

[Pensive]

New home, new place, new people....

[Helga]

the weather here on the ice is terrible, a storm is raging and I don't want to go to bed cause I am afraid the wind will blow something away or at my house or something. I hate this kind of weather. I may have to keep my son at home tomorrow because of the storm, I just want snow, frost and no wind, is that to much to ask for

[papayahed]

Where did all this paper come from?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

I love garlic and onions, and, apparently, sleeping alone.

[Helga]

me too.

My 14 year old almost deaf dog always leaves the room when I sneeze, I must be a very loud sneezer.

[StevenThorn]

I need more books... MORE ))))

[Tyrion Cheddar]

No matter how I refine my spoon technique, I always dribble soup down my chin.

[Sancho]

I'm ready for baseball season

[Tyrion Cheddar]

If you want to be a regular guy, a bowl of popcorn is just the thing.

[Sancho]

The squeeze-play is on. Here's the throw. Here's the play at the plate. It's gonna be close...I think he's gonna make it...

[papayahed]

Stop right there! I gotta know right now.....

[Helga]

I bought tea and it's not good, but it was expensive so I am drinking it

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Poor tea, Helga, is one of the great disappointments the world has to offer. I say this as an (prepare for the understatement of the year) avid tea drinker. I've learned a few tips and tricks over the years. Only the loose leaf, never the bags; while the expensive stuff may not always be great, as you've tragically learned, it is more often than not the better stuff, because quality costs money; and when you find a brand you like, stick with it.

[Calidore]

Helga, I have to say that in the context of your post, your Mr. Spock quote is hilarious.

[Helga]

I drink my bad tea mixed with good, strong tea and that makes it OK. I try to buy expensive tea and coffee cause I know it usually is better, this was just a bad brand, and it's Darjeeling, I love that.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Darjeeling's cool. I'm into the lapsang souchang heavily, I drink it day and night. I buy it in huge bags from Amazon.

[Helga]

sounds good, might check it out.

Apparently I don't just talk to the tv I talk to books and the newspaper too, my son pointed it out, he found it odd.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

sounds good, might check it out.

Apparently I don't just talk to the tv I talk to books and the newspaper too, my son pointed it out, he found it odd.

You talk to the TV. I am glad to read this, as it is a steady habit of mine. I am forever rewriting the show as I'm watching it, because shows generally don't go the way I want them to. I insert lines of dialogue, play along, as it were. I comment to the characters, writers and producers. I keep thinking that when interactive VR comes along, driven by AI that will respond to your wishes and moods on the fly, I will at last find satisfaction. I hope.

Now on to my random thought, namely that it is the 11th of February and already the sun is setting entirely too late in the day. I want my short days and darkness back, all this brightness is like a swarm of bees attacking me.

[Helga]

Now on to my random thought, namely that it is the 11th of February and already the sun is setting entirely too late in the day. I want my short days and darkness back, all this brightness is like a swarm of bees attacking me.

YES, my favourite time of year here on the ice is December and January, when the sun rises around noon and sets at three, it's perfect. I can feel my mood sink when the sun rises early and sets late. Darkness all the way!

but today my son is home sick, so not much work getting done, I have so much work to get through for my thesis and it's a slow motion day.

[Helga]

Now on to my random thought, namely that it is the 11th of February and already the sun is setting entirely too late in the day. I want my short days and darkness back, all this brightness is like a swarm of bees attacking me.

YES, my favourite time of year here on the ice is December and January, when the sun rises around noon and sets at three, it's perfect. I can feel my mood sink when the sun rises early and sets late. Darkness all the way!

but today my son is home sick, so not much work getting done, I have so much work to get through for my thesis and it's a slow motion day.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Adele was recently reported to have passed the billion dollar mark. Now that's from three albums, I think. Blimey. You know you're popular when you release a few gramophone records and you're a billionaire.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

After black history month, can we have cilantro history month?

[Sancho]

Where's the doctor when you need him?

Doctor Hunter S. Thompson, that is. Keeeeee-riest he would be having fun this election year.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

In the Devil's Dictionary, I mentioned horses and cows evolving and one day being our overlords. Well, it seems canines have gotten a head start. I'll say this for old Elmo, he sounds better than One Direction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xshp5C2foBU

[tonywalt]

Still here, leaning into this machine.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Some of the Japanese sex dolls/bots coming out now are starting to approach the point of realism. They just need to give them flat heads so I can rest my drink on my dream girl while I, er, make use of her.

[Helga]

My friend was graduating yesterday and I went to a small party, didn't enjoy it, people are very ignorant and annoying and there was not a bookcase in the house! How is that possible?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

My friend was graduating yesterday and I went to a small party, didn't enjoy it, people are very ignorant and annoying and there was not a bookcase in the house! How is that possible?

I heard it said not long ago, never trust anyone whose television is bigger than their bookcase. I like that, except that since I went all electronic and audiobooks, I have no more bookcase and have a big HDTV. ;-) And let me second what you said about people, ignorant, annoying, and most of them are dumber than a sack full of hammer handles.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

I have to pee.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

My foot hurts.

[tonywalt]

It's 2:28 AM, and I should be sleepier, not likely.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Jehovah's Witnesses just came to the door for the third time. If they come one more time I'm grabbing my hatchet.

[North Star]

Hey, they came to my door today as well. That's the second or third time ever (on any door I've been on the other side of), I think.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Never drink a shake consisting of bananas, blueberries, strawberries, protein powder and almond milk unless you can be sure you'll have access to a toilet. Several times.

[Sancho]

"Be of good cheer, the military-industrial state will soon collapse. Meanwhile we must do everything in our power to oppose, resist, and subvert its desperate aggrandizements. As a matter of course. As a matter of honor."
---Ed Abbey

"The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. The rivers carry our canoes and feed our children...you must give the rivers the kindness you would give your brothers."
---Chief Seattle

F*** yeah!
---Sancho

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Sancho, you're a fine man. I like the cut o' yer jib.

[Sancho]

Aaarrhh!
^pirate talk

Thanks, T.C., and right back at'cha!

[Sancho]

Can things possibly get much better? And by better I mean worse. I'm referring of course to the Republican's presidential debate last night in which they discussed the size one of the candidate's genitalia. I've gotta tell ya, I'll bet Hillary's got a bigger pecker than any of those dudes.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Can things possibly get much better? And by better I mean worse. I'm referring of course to the Republican's presidential debate last night in which they discussed the size one of the candidate's genitalia. I've gotta tell ya, I'll bet Hillary's got a bigger pecker than any of those dudes.

<sound of me falling over>

I didn't see all the references online till today, and I just watched the clips on YT. The words "Oh my God..." hardly seem adequate. I'm sure this kind of thing really strikes fear into Vladimir Putin and ISIS. Oh yeah, I bet they're simply quaking in their boots at the prospect of having to face the wrath of Rubio, Trump, Sanders or Clinton. <eyeroll> Save us.

[Lokasenna]

Fun fact: In 1896 Nicephorus Glycas, the 80 year old Bishop of Lesbos, dropped dead. As per the traditions of the Greek Orthodox Church, his body was laid out in state in his church for mourners to shuffle past. On the second day of this activity, the faithful were alarmed when the body suddenly sat bolt upright and demanded to know what everyone was staring at. He then continued in his role of bishop for several more years before taking a second, more successful, run at death.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Fun fact: In 1896 Nicephorus Glycas, the 80 year old Bishop of Lesbos, dropped dead. As per the traditions of the Greek Orthodox Church, his body was laid out in state in his church for mourners to shuffle past. On the second day of this activity, the faithful were alarmed when the body suddenly sat bolt upright and demanded to know what everyone was staring at. He then continued in his role of bishop for several more years before taking a second, more successful, run at death.

I think I've actually heard this story, long ago, but without the flair and panache that only you, Lokasenna, can bring to it. Thank you for a satisfying chortle. I will now insert an obligatory joke as to how many of our own elected officials have in fact been dead for some time with no one the wiser. There. That's that done. One day I want to learn more about your job, or studies, Lok, baby, as your knowledge base consists of the kind of stuff I wish I had in my head, and I infer a well spent life on your part from it.

For my own random thought of the day, I give you my realization that it will be 70 degrees here next week, say the forecasters, and I'm wondering if I'll be struck at that same moment by Spring Fever, such that I run about my property chasing the turkeys, deer and pheasant in a salacious manner.

[spikepipsqueak]

I would pay good money to see that.

[Sancho]

For Sale:
http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae197/mollyandbruno/0e68a632fa7baf82d1ec2fa34a81c404_zpsqy1dqhzz.jpg
Yep, I took that snap on my cellphone today.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Yup, likewise I'm selling this choice Arizona property:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=photo+of+beach&iax=1&ia=images&iai=http%3A%2F%2Fbstoursworld.net%2FInboundtours%2 Fbeach_parasol.jpg

[Sancho]

So, I've been city-hiking Manhattan for the past two days, throwing elbows, head-faking taxicabs, and being a general nuisance to my fellow sidewalk travelers. That said, I've formulated the following philosophy:

In a perfect world, walking would be like riding a bicycle - if you don't do it fast enough, you fall over.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

So, I've been city-hiking Manhattan for the past two days, throwing elbows, head-faking taxicabs, and being a general nuisance to my fellow sidewalk travelers. That said, I've formulated the following philosophy:

In a perfect world, walking would be like riding a bicycle - if you don't do it fast enough, you fall over.

Well said. There's a nod to the Segway in there somewhere, since Dean Kamen intended it to be the next logical evolutionary step from walking. I think they could make a comeback if we were legally allowed to rev them up to full speed and run over much slower pedestrians, with their less evolved bipedal activity. It has a Darwinian logic to it. What do you think?

[Calidore]

In a perfect world, walking would be like riding a bicycle - if you don't do it fast enough, you fall over.

Actually, if you think about it, that's pretty much how it works. Walking is just a controlled fall; if you don't get the other leg forward quickly enough to prop you up, down you go.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Actually, if you think about it, that's pretty much how it works. Walking is just a controlled fall; if you don't get the other leg forward quickly enough to prop you up, down you go.

Indeed. And speaking of getting things up, any other middle-aged men here? (That was a little joke. Just a little joke.)

[Sancho]

Well the boys down at the gym have started calling me the human tripod. I'm not sure why.

But in all honesty, I'd rather have my balls pounded flat with a wooden mallet than climb on a Segway. That contraption would rob me of a good walk. I feel great when I'm in motion. Everything works better - circulation, respiration, nervous system. My mind works better. I have ideas. I get hornier than usual. I'd rather walk than ride. I'd rather take the stairs than the elevator. I'd rather pedal a bicycle than ride a motorbike. I'd rather paddle a canoe than float in a motorboat.

I love the West African greeting - "How da body." I had a friend from Dakar who would always greet me with - "Aye, Sancho, How da Body?" I'd smile and pat my chest, belly, thighs, and lower legs and reply - "Da body good today."

Keep moving, my friends. You stop, you rust.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Well the boys down at the gym have started calling me the human tripod. I'm not sure why.

But in all honesty, I'd rather have my balls pounded flat with a wooden mallet than climb on a Segway. That contraption would rob me of a good walk. I feel great when I'm in motion. Everything works better - circulation, respiration, nervous system. My mind works better. I have ideas. I get hornier than usual. I'd rather walk than ride. I'd rather take the stairs than the elevator. I'd rather pedal a bicycle than ride a motorbike. I'd rather paddle a canoe than float in a motorboat.

I love the West African greeting - "How da body." I had a friend from Dakar who would always greet me with - "Aye, Sancho, How da Body?" I'd smile and pat my chest, belly, thighs, and lower legs and reply - "Da body good today."

Keep moving, my friends. You stop, you rust.

I couldn't have said it better, Tripod. And the connection between exercise and horniness, ooh baby. Weight training and cardio, that's my secret. That and four bottles of Viagra.

[Sancho]

Hey! What's with all the Hangul data dumps on this website?

Kim Jong?

You here?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Hey! What's with all the Hangul data dumps on this website?

Kim Jong?

You here?

So weird because when I logged in earlier and the whole site was spammed with Korean, I was going to post the same question. And thanks for teaching me that Hangul is the name of the Korean alphabet. As for Kim Jong, how I wish we could put him in a blonde wig and cast him as one of the females in Blacks on Blondes 4: Anal Without Mercy.

[Sancho]

So I went to The Safeway grocery store today and evidently they are okay with hucksters hanging out and plying their wares in front of the store. So I'm here to tell ya that El Sancho can eat an entire box of Girl Scout Cookies (Peanut Butter Tagalongs) in one sitting.

[MANICHAEAN]

Is atheism a non-prophet organization?

Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?

I went to a bookstore and asked the sales woman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him . . . is he still wrong?

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

Is there another word for synonym?

Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?"

Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all?"

Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?

[Helga]

I think tea will pour out of my ears soon

[Tyrion Cheddar]

So I went to The Safeway grocery store today and evidently they are okay with hucksters hanging out and plying their wares in front of the store. So I'm here to tell ya that El Sancho can eat an entire box of Girl Scout Cookies (Peanut Butter Tagalongs) in one sitting.

Oh, dude, don't get me started. I've just been recovering from one of my rare but persistent breakdowns in which I inhale whole boxes of Pepperidge Farm cookies or Entenmann's cakes. Man, that sugar jones is something else, isn't it.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

So I went to The Safeway grocery store today and evidently they are okay with hucksters hanging out and plying their wares in front of the store. So I'm here to tell ya that El Sancho can eat an entire box of Girl Scout Cookies (Peanut Butter Tagalongs) in one sitting.

Oh, dude, don't get me started. I've just been recovering from one of my rare but persistent breakdowns in which I inhale whole boxes of Pepperidge Farm cookies or Entenmann's cakes. Man, that sugar jones is something else, isn't it.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

I think tea will pour out of my ears soon

Heh. It pours out of me by the gallon. Unfortunately not my ears, so I have to get out of bed. ;-)

[Pensive]

Going to Doctor's after three years. That is what palpitations can make you do...

[papayahed]

Going to Doctor's after three years. That is what palpitations can make you do...

Everything ok Pensy?

[papayahed]

That little blue bird has been flying around for 11 years, it must be tired!

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Summer can f*ck right off already. I'm ready for Fall.

[Calidore]

Ow...

[Helga]

Went to the doctors because I knew I needed antibiotics after a long cold and he gave me a fistbumb thing cause I had diagnosed myself correctly

[Calidore]

Fistbumb?

Unfortunately, I recently diagnosed myself correctly also, except my diagnosis was hernia. Repaired yesterday morning, suffering the aftereffects of abdominal surgery now. My first ever real surgery.

[Danik 2016]

I hope you recover quickly!

[Calidore]

I hope you recover quickly!

Thanks very much! Me too.

[Calidore]

A man like Donald Trump can be a viable presidential candidate, and the Cubs win the World Series. This may be the End of Days.

[tailor STATELY]

My thoughts exactly.

[Danik 2016]

Not even in thought!

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I find it interesting that Lisabetta selected Salerno basil to plant in the pot that contained Lorenzo's head.

[spikepipsqueak]

I wish I had known at 20 what I now know about possessions.

[Calidore]

The fable of the frog and the scorpion seems appropriate, but also not quite.

[Sancho]

Holy crap!

I thought I was dreaming, but sure enough - the Cubbies won!

Also there's that other thing...

[seerseenbyseein]

The fable of the frog and the scorpion seems appropriate, but also not quite.

Very apt.

I seem to recall something Jefferson said about something--it was like "a firebell in the night".

Well, its done now. We gave away our country.

We have no choice now but to suck it up.

[Pompey Bum]

Gee, we turn out to be a democracy after all. Who knew?

[MystyrMystyry]

How in Hell?!?

[Clopin]

Good job America. Why is Canada the single Western country swinging further left right now?

[Pompey Bum]

Full house for this time of the morning. Haven't you West Coasters gone to bed yet?

[spikepipsqueak]

I saw someone state that Hilary is more right wing than Donald. I need someone to explain that to me.


How do you get to the right of someone who wants to isolate his country?

[Pompey Bum]

The valve! The valve!

[Helga]

ten years ago I saw Kevin Spacey on stage performing Richard II, last night I saw a movie where he said 'meow, that hurt'

[Scheherazade]

I am going to Iceland!

[Calidore]

I am going to Iceland!

Hi, Scher! Long time no see.

Have a great trip, and say hi to Helga for us.

[Scheherazade]

Thank you! Not for another 70 sleeps, though. Very excited ��

[Dreamwoven]

That's a long trip, 70 nights! Hope you will write about it here on LitNet when you get back. A thread on Iceland would be great. Helga is from Iceland, I believe.

[Dreamwoven]

We have had a poor year for pine cones. They are excellent for lighting fires.

[Dreamwoven]

Did you know that there is cloud appreciation society (https://cloudappreciationsociety.org)? Its in the UK of course...Wonderful idea!

[Dreamwoven]

We are in the darkest time of the year here, it doesn't get light until 9 am, and gets dark by 3 pm. That's six hours of daylight. Still, in the far north of Sweden within the Polar Circle, there is no daylight...

[Dreamwoven]

I still remember the rainbow I saw a week or so ago. It stretched from horizon to horizon and like so much in nature was quite beautiful.

[Snowqueen]

What's wrong with LitNet? It took me an hour to post photos in the thread! 😐

[cacian]

What's wrong with LitNet? It took me an hour to post photos in the thread! 

I cant seem to be able to post pictures too. I am in the Art sections. It will just bring the link up and the visual:nonod:

[Wizard272002]

Shoot! My brain train was derailed!

[Wizard272002]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?/v=T2AG545WIsg

[Sancho]

For how much longer do we have to suffer this fool?

[Secret III]

My thought of the day:

Don't you forget about your loved ones.

[Secret III]

Random thought of the day:

All I need is money. Every problem that I have can be fixed with money. Everything that makes me happy can be paid for with money. There is nothing on this Earth that I could ever want or need that can't be paid for with money. I would be perfectly content with being limited to the limitless power of money and money only. All I need is money.

Money. Only money. And nothing but money. Absolutely nothing else at all whatsoever, except money. FINAL